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But none of her fantasies had done their first kiss justice There was no way she could have ever i place in a deserted alley, with Zach’s strong ainst hers, his large hands sliding into her hair

And, oh God, the feel of his lips on hers, the way his tongue slipped and slid against hersshe was lost to sensation, to the insatiable greed to takebody and soul

"Heather" He groaned her naan to alternately nip at her lower lip, then lave over the sh hat he really wanted was to devour her

She knew she should be pushing hi their connection out of sheer self-preservation, but her body sient dictate

Instead, she rapping her arms around his broad shoulders She wanted him closer, needed more She’d never felt like this with anyone else--coe fro more than one incredibly potent kiss

Yes, she knew she should stop, that she should be pushing hi him it could never happen Only, in a moment of ht to have with aone hand in her hair, he began to run the other slowly down the side of her body She nearly cried out into his mouth when he slid over--and past--the curve of her breast on the way to cup her hip with his palh, bared beneath the hem of her shorts

God, the feel of his hand on her skin was shockingly good And she was evenup around his hip, but not enough that she thought to stop hie to s

Heather had always enjoyed the purely physical release of sex, but it had never been intense enough for her to forget herself, to lose track of what she believed in Anyone could come out the side door and find theainst the wall They were still fully clothed, but even so, she felt as if Zach had already stripped her bare

She tried to pull herself out of the abyss, oh, how she tried, but when he started to rain kisses down across her jaw and found that super-sensitive spot just at the underside of her chin, how could she do anything but let her head fall back against the wall, and drink in every exquisite sensation of his h stubble scraped at her in thehooked over his hip to pull hiiven hi her fingers into his dark hair when soh the third tied in a breathless voice as she tried to catch hold of her racing heart While she and Zach had been lost in their kiss, the dogs’ leashes had tangled up around each other and their owners, too "We need to untangle the, "Cuddles, quit !" in a frustrated voice as he bent down to unclip the leash and scoop the puppy up in his arms

"It’s not her fault," she told him as she worked to pull the leashes apart with shaky hands "We shouldn’t have been doing that here" As if the location were the only proble that anywhere at all," she quickly clarified

Only, the truth was that if the dogs hadn’t been there with them, Zach probably would have stripped her clothes off while he kissed her up against the wall And instead of trying to stop hiet closer